I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.